Technical Difficulties (...and Another Giveaway!)

We're having a few technical difficulties with our Twitter and Facebook pages, so please bear with us while we work them out. In the meantime, though....

...another chance to win a $100 gift card to Moody Mamas! Visit Pregnancy and Newborns for your chance to win.

Learn a Dance -- Or Just Watch Some Kids Do It!

Kat De Luna, recording artist extraordinaire, has a new single out called "Push Push" that is completely infectious. It's perfect for this time of year when it's just starting to get warm. Even better than a new jam, though, is a new dance to accompany the new jam -- and video of a bunch of kids doing it better than we ever will. Check out the actual dance in the first video, and then a bunch of little girls shaking their miniature groove things in the second.

Ode to a Maternity Line (...and free stuff!)

Our Target line has inspired us to poetry:

Just finished spring cleaning, your closet’s now bare
Don’t go around saying, “there’s nothing to wear!”
Shop on Target.com for Moody Mamas, no duh,
To find clothing you’ll wear, now til foreva!
Our styles are fab, you’ll look like a doll,
The sizes all range from 2X to X-Small.
For the best looks around and at costs that you’ll love
Remember to shop on the site right above!

We've also got a couple of new giveaways to announce:
Win $50.00 to Moody Mamas at Double Duty Mommy!
Win $50.00 to Moody Mamas at Go Graham Go!

From NY Magazine - How to Give Birth (..in a Comedy)

From New York Magazine:

"...if there's anything we've learned from sweeps sitcom episodes and movies like Nine Months and Knocked Up, it's that childbirth can be a scary process, what with all the panicky dads passing out and the screaming of "GET ME THE DRUGS!" And so, after carefully consulting some of pop culture's most famous births, we've compiled a helpful video slideshow...called What to Expect When You're Expecting in a Comedy."

Click on over to go through the slideshow of totally hysterical comedy cliches about what giving birth is like (from the hormonal shirt grab to the "beatific presentation" of the new baby) and revel in the fact that giving birth might suck a little bit...but not as bad as sit-coms do.

A Helpful Mother-to-Be’s Guide to Giving Birth in a Sitcom or Movie Comedy

Gourmet Recipes for Gourmet Moms!

Epicurious is probably the best collection of recipes online. They've got everything from basic pizza dough to the most complicated souffle (we're talking pop-it-in-the-oven-and-hold-your-breath-that-it-doesn't-fall complicated). They've pulled together a list of their most delicious, most succulent, most mouth-watering and (most importantly) most Mom-pleasing recipes as an early Mother's day present. So, whether you want to cook for your mom, a mom-to-be, or yourself, try a few of these recipes on for size!

Mother's Day Recipes for Any Day and Any Mom!

Giveaways Galore!

We've got two giveaways going on in conjunction with some of our favorite sites! Sign up for the Tot Trends newsletter or visit Mom Generations for your chance to receive a $50 Moody Mamas gift certificate (...as well as a general 30% discount code)!

For Tuesday -- The Best Excercise Video...EVER.

Yoga. Pilates. Aerobics. Boot camp fitness. Dance routines. Sweatin' to the Oldies. There's a workout for everything (and about a billion more for moms and moms-to-be)....but our favorite kind of workout video is the one you can sit down and straight-up laugh at. Click the link below to check out the 1987 men's aerobics championships--just avert your eyes from the all the spandex.

1987 Men's Aerobics Championship Video

NY Magazine Turns up the Heat!

New York Magazine's blog Daily Intel has an absolutely addictive feature called "New York Sex Diaries," where one anonymous New Yorker dishes all of the dirty details of their romances/hook-ups/total dating failures. The content is racy (fair warning!) but the real pleasure comes in snooping through the love lives of people you'll never meet.

If your Monday is as boring as ours, click on over to the magazine for the most honest and funny description of a pregnant woman's sex life we've ever read -- and then read through the archives to live vicariously through the others!

New York Sex Diaries (from New York Magazine)
The Pregnant Waitress

Adventures in Mommyland!

This is the first in what we hope will be a series of interviews with real life moms, talking about their real life adventures raising kids. (Know any awesome mamas we should interview? E-mail us at moodymamasblog@gmail.com and put us in touch!)

Elise Rosemarin, co-founder of Moody Mamas, recently interviewed Liz Wickstrom, a 28 year old stay at home mom who just brought home her third baby, Claire Elizabeth Wickstrom. Elise talked to her a little bit about what it's like to be a superstar mom to a newborn and two toddlers.

ER: Congrats on the new baby! Are you home yet?

LW: Yes! Back to reality!

ER: How are you feeling? I love the name you picked out, Claire Elizabeth... sounds very regal...

LW: Ha, thanks. I feel great, kinda tired. First night was rough!

ER: I bet! Did you have a c-section or...

LW: Normal! Got my epidural at 3, had her at 5:10!

ER: Wow! That's awesome. You are amazing...do you have help right now?

LW: Yes, the hubby is on big kid duty and my mom is here helping with laundry and cleaning.

ER: I'm happy that you are getting some much deserved help! Just saw a pic of the new baby and the fam--you look great. Was the third time the charm, ie. was it easier this time around?

LW: The labor/delivery was. The pregnancy was rough! It was hard having energy for the older kids!

ER: I bet. I hope you are getting to relax now.

LW: Yeah....Jared just took the kids to the zoo so it is nap time. Got to get some rest while they are out!

ER: Ok! Enjoy the nap!

www.mmtarget.com

Today is the big day! Our brand new styles are available at Target. We're so proud to be working with such an awesome store, and we couldn't be happier with the styles we're offering at http://www.mmtarget.com/

Here's our maxi dress! It's also available in gray and teal.

This is our chiffon trim knit dress. It also comes in teal and black. Click over to http://www.mmtarget.com/ to see our other styles! Happy shopping!

HUGE NEWS! Tune in Tomorrow!

We are so thrilled to announce that our line will be featured tomorrow on The Today Show! Our segment will air between 6:00am and 11:00am, so tune in and watch the beautiful Bethenny Frankel, mom-to-be and one of the Real Housewives of New York, present our brand new looks (available for preorder at Target.com tomorrow).

The Today Show

6am - 11am

Moody Mamas + Bethenny Frankel!

The Wonders of Toilet Training

We know that most of our clients are too preoccupied with the arrival of their babies to consider how things are going to work when those babies are old enough to talk, walk, etc., but this Japanese potty training video is too good not to show off now. If you thought "Everybody Poops" was a classic in the genre, wait until you see this video:



And don't forget, our new line debuts at Target on April 15!

We're So Excited!

Our new Target line debuts this week -- Thursday, April 15th to be exact--and we couldn't be more excited about it. Set your bookmarks to www.mmtarget.com and pre-order, pre-order, pre-order on Thursday!

How excited are we? More excited than even Jessie Spano in this classic Saved By The Bell overacting moment:

For Friday: Parents Are Cool!

If we were to write a Moody Mamas Manifesto (Mamafesto?), we believe in a few things: that pregnant women deserve to look as chic and sexy in maternity clothes as they did in their regular wardrobe; that pregnancy is a time to be celebrated; and most importantly, that motherhood doesn't mean forgetting your life pre-baby.

Nerve has an adorable story today called "Before You Were Born" that features a writer interviewing his parents about the adventures they had before he was even a twinkle in his mom or dad's eye. This couple (dating in the 1970s) walked from Pennsylvania to Wisconsin both for the adventure of it and as a test of their relationship. The story will make you go "aw," but even better, it's a reminder that our parents were pretty cool -- just like current moms-to-be.

Before You Were Born

Troy the Owlet!

This is an adorable story about an abandonded owl raised by humans who thinks he's a human. Proof positive that it's tricky to raise a baby of any species -- but at least you'll never have to climb a tree and convince yours it's okay to jump.

Owl That is Scared of Heights Refuses To Fly
(Telegraph UK, via Jezebel)

A Book You'll Love!

This is not your mother's book about pregnancy and motherhood. From Amazon:

For Maggie Lamond Simone, sarcasm was always a means of survival and words her weapon of choice. Her second-grade teacher worried about a child so flippant at such a tender age. Twenty years later, as a police officer escorted a drunken Simone away from the car she had just wrecked, she asked him to drop her not at home but at the bar where her friends waited. He didn’t laugh and she quit drinking the next day. When she finally came up for air a few years later, she was afraid that she wouldn’t be funny without the alcohol, but had a startling revelation: she wasn’t funny in the first place—the world was. So she started writing about it. This collection of her columns and essays addresses dating, marriage, pregnancy, motherhood and menopause with a caustic wit and a healthy disrespect for perfection.

From Beer to Maternity

We're Excited -- You Should Be Too!

We're on the edge of our seats around here waiting for April 15 -- the day when you can pre-order our new collection at Target! The address is mmtarget.com and we'll be debuting a whole bunch of fantastic new styles that, as always, take the frump out of the bump.

Best of all, the line will be super affordable! We're all in a tight spot these days when it comes to cash, so you won't pay more than $39.99 for any of our brand new pieces.

So set your bookmarks to:

mmtarget.com

..and get over there on April 15 to order our new line!

Peep This!

Any mom with kids, or any mom-to-be who's just a kid a heart, is likely to have a stack of post-Easter Peeps she's not sure what to do with. Kids and moms alike ten to enjoy the all the IDEA of sugary marshmallowy ducks way more than actually eating them. Click the two links below for ways to celebrate the world's strangest candy before it's gone until next year:

Peepshi (How to Make Peeps Sushi)

Peeps Art Gallery

Peep Research (science experiments with Peeps)

The Washington Post Peeps Show (Peep dioramas)

The Perfect Dress -- To Be On A Boat!

Welcome to spring!

Across the country it's finally getting warm, and we've got the perfect outfit. Our Nifty Nautical Dress is made out of seasonal seersucker so it's lightweight and comfortable for such sunny weather. You can pick it up on our website:

Nifty Nautical Dress

It truly is the best dress for getting some sun, whether you're in your yard, on the sidewalk, or ON A BOAT WITH T-PAIN:

No April Fools--Just Funny Infants!

The people at Funny or Die are humor experts. They're humor artists. They're humor geniuses. Unfortunately, every professional comedian on the site pales in comparison to the acting chops of the baby in this Will Ferrell short.

(Also, click the link at the bottom for an amazing video of a baby dancing to Beyonce's "Single Ladies." May all of the expectant moody mamas out there have children with moves as slick.)

All the Single Babies - watch more funny videos